The box was made was private label Houit tool box company, Chicago. They upgraded the hardware on later boxes. The top for this bottom was a 5 drawer cabinet. Ur chest is from the 70’s I think. Houit made their cabinets in red and turquoise. Later models had removable drawers. My cabinet has a bifold cover that slides in after unlocked. I have had this tool box for over 50 years. I was an agent for Houit in the 70’s.
Thank you for showing how to take one of those finger ratchets apart and clean and grease. I have a few I would say are much, much older. I have a couple of Walworth ones that are twice that size and from the 1920s or 30s. I never knew that Walworth even made them or that those ratchets even existed back then. My go to lubricate is my dad's Amalie bearing grease from the 1960s and in a metal can. I just used my dad's Amalie grease to re-grease a 1940s Proto WF-38 ratchet made at Wrights Field where Wright Patterson AFB is now. It works absolutely great. I also greased my dad's antique jacks one a model T jack and another a 1912 Hartford Suspention Co jack. He has 5 antique jacks I still have and still work great.
I have a snap on toolbox that belonged to my grandfather that's similar to yours and he bought it in the late 40's. On the left rear side of the box in the model and year with the serial number. It has three drawers and the cover is in two pieces and folds in the middle to stored away. Thanks for sharing 🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍🪛🔧🪛🔧🔨🔨
Look very close on the left side of the box for the name, model, year, serial #. My 1954 Snap-on KR-56 Tool Chest had that data. My 1993 was on the back.
Nice find. Particularly with all those tools in it. I have something similar. Yes, there was a metal bar went into that slot and down the front to lock it all in place as well as the slot in the bottom. There may have been two bars and they came together for a padlock in the middle.
I know a gal that will inherit a matching top and bottom similar if not exact. Its also a off color, more gray in color. Very cool vintage find. There is a site online that may help identifying the year. Supposed to be numbers on back of tool box to identify. Colors like yours, hers make me think of machinist rather than mechanics. Interesting.
@@HavocSun. Tens of thousands of the Snap On ( and many other manufacturers) boxes of the era were turned out in various shades of green, blue, and blue green. This color scheme was popular from the mid thirties through the late forties; reds became dominant from the early fifties… A true machinist chest would come with factory installed felt liners in all of the drawers. A cool setup you scored! Hopefully it’s serving you well!
@@HavocSun. I have a top box and lower of 1960 vintage, made by MBC. They made boxes for MAC/Snap On , etc. I have the same drawer slides and they are indeed a pleasure to use!
I believe that script logo came out around 1954 or 1955. If the box is that age or newer, there might be some stampings on it to give you more information (assuming you are still looking). Try looking behind on the back panel, sometimes there is something on the left side panel, and I've seen stampings on other rollers like this in front, on the cross member below the open shelf area. Look on the front around and above the left front wheel. Snap-on also made tool boxes like this and others for other industries like medical, etc. Some of those were different colors. Interesting to see the shadow of what was once there; the top shows distinct spaces of paint and rust. Do you know why? That pattern is caused by the original set. The top box at one time sat there for years and protected the back half of the top. One often sees the surface of these old rollers with half rust and scratches and half almost-new paint. I just picked up a set of a top box and this roller bottom. Mine is from the late 1940s- early 1950s. The logo badge is a rectangle. The script logo you have followed some years later. Another set I have from 1955 (a super chest top and roll-a-bench bottom - I am making videos on this set) have the same script logo you have here. Take care.
Removing the drawers is simple: you need a very thin piece of shim like stock; it slips in where the drawer slides are. SO tool boxes from the late seventies and eighty's were all this way. Call Snap-on! Information on this is no big deal.
Definitely worth cleaning up and restoring. Those drawers don't have bearings, do they? A little axle grease helps them slide easier. Abom79 and a few other RU-vid machinists who collect old tools might be interested in seeing it, even if you're not planning on reselling it.
@@HavocSun That's what I figured. I've only seen bearing sliders on the newer toolboxes. As I said, a little axle grease and they slide just nicely. "This Old Tony" may also be interested in seeing this.
Yes it slide up & into the top of the lower compartment. Its supposed to have a bar that goes down across all the drawers & fits into a small hole of the bottom of the tool box. It looks like I can reproduce it.
